From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:02:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <55375867020000A100019F48@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> <87pniex9a4.fsf@joffe.skangas.se> <2ecef70596fda1bcaaaa31944a01a39a@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <83eeytnffd.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="58696"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: Phil Sainty , 20403@debbugs.gnu.org, Ulrich Windl To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 01 06:03:15 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQP5c-000Ex5-EO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:03:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQP5a-0007uJ-Dz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQP5T-0007u1-Qf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQP5S-0000k5-T6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQP5S-0000jt-PL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQP5S-0000B3-Jg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:03:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 05:03:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20403 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 20403-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20403.1572584582677 (code B ref 20403); Fri, 01 Nov 2019 05:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20403) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Nov 2019 05:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54921 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQP5R-0000Ao-Le for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pf1-f195.google.com ([209.85.210.195]:41348) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQP5Q-0000Ab-0U for 20403@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 01:03:00 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pf1-f195.google.com with SMTP id p26so6195704pfq.8 for <20403@debbugs.gnu.org>; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:02:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=dVjOubTsm0kv71f79kzCSVhnM5LyJvjheYYRr5t814w=; b=TtQgb5pYPvvtO6ohUTCLdNhtJvUIp55Vv+RlXlafT4WC7vsrvuODKhseOybi6uW3ik knWHzILPg1OpIL1R89vSqISpTHePGwVl1gmjwpMst5QkdehymxNAYAsnUwhKZ28BAPHO kLOiYHYk6hRFsdhpiOVme28c/EjhR9s3hANtCmYeoNma4t7yH9stQFLKdGPZ0wMQZIav jGVgLkdAFsEgJr/T0NWDBG4tlk2/amzmneuD8qUvrR36X3g+PE9iAYTDp/6FD+rdNSdh 6LkUDi2TQCjqTThVNquzh4lJOCozGx0SA2duLjWxsYRrKpQtYPapo48EjTkD17pLcEsx kcEA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXvgBbDLNmThBlnN+Nvbg4E2WQcUB1bb6i/dtg8vp2+DsFMN7IB BY1pgmsynUPmD8heMr73vQmuxAWgmsB3WA+Ih1s= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwerBPBIiblKpKiGSrunuDzI1/qVu10/hgdnGbbvENeG3arXDUV1Q2H/IL0EOGdnyeGivkQAe/vr2842FaSz8I= X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:a406:: with SMTP id y6mr12891901pjp.106.1572584574159; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:02:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170573 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Maybe the etc/NEWS symlink doesn't even need to be versioned. > The build process could construct it based on the version number. That makes sense to me. When creating source distribution tarballs, the file could simpy be copied or moved into place in case there are problems with symlinks on this or that platform (I guess MS-Windows?). Is there any reason not to do this? Best regards, Stefan Kangas